13/11/2004
Al-Alam Alyom Newspaper 2004/NOVEMBER /13
This article discusses the issues the Egyptian government current faces in regards to trade and the transparency between departments. The government understands that the processes of economic reform will never prove successful unless urgent procedures are taken to control prices. The government has began to take serious measures to restrain price inflation and check the traders who chose the easy way to gain profits on the account of the poor citizens. President Mubarak on many occasions has affirmed the necessity of protecting low-income citizens. He has made an emphasis of securing an appropriate and honorable life for the common people by providing the necessary commodities in the markets to prevent any additional burden on the citizens.(Available in Arabic – German in PDF )
This article discusses the issues the Egyptian government current faces in regards to trade and the transparency between departments. The government understands that the processes of economic reform will never prove successful unless urgent procedures are taken to control prices. The government has began to take serious measures to restrain price inflation and check the traders who chose the easy way to gain profits on the account of the poor citizens. President Mubarak on many occasions has affirmed the necessity of protecting low-income citizens. He has made an emphasis of securing an appropriate and honorable life for the common people by providing the necessary commodities in the markets to prevent any additional burden on the citizens. Rashid Muhammad Rashid, Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, said the government has been preoccupied the first moment it undertook the responsibility with continuous and assiduous effort to relieve the burdens of citizens. The government has taken a number of decisions that were already put into practice to provide goods for the consumers at a reasonable price by removing many burdens from the producers. For example, official fees and custom duties were lowered and the plots of land necessary for plants are made available at low prices.